AfriCOBRA (artist collective)
Art for People's Sake by
In the 1960s and early 1970s, Chicago witnessed a remarkable flourishing of visual arts associated with the Black Arts Movement. From the painting of murals as a way to reclaim public space and the establishment of independent community art centers to the work of the AFRICOBRA collective and Black filmmakers, artists on Chicago's South and West Sides built a vision of art as service to the people. In Art for People's Sake Rebecca Zorach traces the little-told story of the visual arts of the Black Arts Movement in Chicago, showing how artistic innovations responded to decades of racist urban planning that left Black neighborhoods sites of economic depression, infrastructural decay, and violence. Working with community leaders, children, activists, gang members, and everyday people, artists developed a way of using art to help empower and represent themselves. Showcasing the depth and sophistication of the visual arts in Chicago at this time, Zorach demonstrates the crucial role of aesthetics and artistic practice in the mobilization of Black radical politics during the Black Power era.
ISBN: 9781478001003Publication Date: 2019-03-22
The Black Arts Movement and the Black Panther Party in American Visual Culture by
This book examines a range of visual expressions of Black Power across American art and popular culture from 1965 through 1972. It begins with case studies of artist groups, including Spiral, OBAC and AfriCOBRA, who began questioning Western aesthetic traditions and created work that honored leaders, affirmed African American culture, and embraced an African lineage. Also showcased is an Oakland Museum exhibition of 1968 called "New Perspectives in Black Art," as a way to consider if Black Panther Party activities in the neighborhood might have impacted local artists' work. The concluding chapters concentrate on the relationship between selected Black Panther Party members and visual culture, focusing on how they were covered by the mainstream press, and how they self-represented to promote Party doctrine and agendas.
ISBN: 9781138605923Publication Date: 2018-12-21
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power
African American art in the era of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers In the period of radical change that was 1963-83, young black artists at the beginning of their careers confronted difficult questions about art, politics and racial identity. How to make art that would stand as innovative, original, formally and materially complex, while also making work that reflected their concerns and experience as black Americans? Soul of a Nation surveys this crucial period in American art history, bringing to light previously neglected histories of 20th-century black artists, including Sam Gilliam, Melvin Edwards, Jack Whitten, William T. Williams, Howardina Pindell, Romare Bearden, David Hammons, Barkley L. Hendricks, Senga Nengudi, Noah Purifoy, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, Charles White and Frank Bowling. The book features substantial essays from Mark Godfrey and Zoe Whitley, writing on abstraction and figuration, respectively. It also explores the art-historical and social contexts with subjects ranging from black feminism, AfriCOBRA and other artist-run groups to the role of museums in the debates of the period and visual art's relation to the Black Arts Movement. Over 170 artworks by these and many other artists of the era are illustrated in full color. 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the first use of the term "black power" by student activist Stokely Carmichael; it will also be 50 years since the US Supreme Court overturned the prohibition of interracial marriage. At this turning point in the reassessment of African American art history, Soul of a Nation is a vital contribution to this timely subject.
ISBN: 9781942884170
Imna Arroyo (artist)
Why Goats Smell Bad by Call Number: S.398.2089 M31wISBN: 0208024697Publication Date: 1998-02-01Located at Center for Children's Books. Illustrated by Imna Arroyo.
Please also see our Contemporary Latin American Artists guide.
Belkis Ayón (artist)
Belkis Ayon: Kname by Call Number: 769.924 N738ISBN: 9788475069166Publication Date: 2010-09-30Available by request through I-Share
Please also see our Contemporary Latin American Artists guide.
Lavette Ballard (artist)
Lavette Ballard, My Name is Breonna, 10x10", mixed media on wood, from Quarantine Chronicles 2020 series
Blackbird Revolt (graphic design)
Bisa Butler (artist)
Installation view of Butler's work at Claire Oliver Gallery
Telfar Clemens (fashion designer)
Shawanda Corbett (artist)
Creative Reaction Lab (graphic design)
Kenturah Davis (artist)
Vaginal Davis (performer, artist)
Queer by ISBN: 9780262528672
David Driskell (artist, scholar, curator)
Astonishment and Power by ISBN: 1560982748
